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Development of Mast Cells and Inflammation In Development of Mast Cells and Importance of Their Tryptase and Chymase Serine Proteases in Inflammation and Wound Healing The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Douaiher, Jeffrey, Julien Succar, Luca Lancerotto, Michael F. Gurish, Dennis P. Orgill, Matthew J. Hamilton, Steven A. Krilis, and Richard L. Stevens. 2014. “Development of Mast Cells and Importance of Their Tryptase and Chymase Serine Proteases in Inflammation and Wound Healing.” Advances in Immunology: 211–252. doi:10.1016/ b978-0-12-800267-4.00006-7. Published Version doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-800267-4.00006-7 Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32659595 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Adv Immunol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 July 29. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptPublished NIH-PA Author Manuscript in final edited NIH-PA Author Manuscript form as: Adv Immunol. 2014 ; 122: 211–252. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-800267-4.00006-7. Development of Mast Cells and Importance of Their Tryptase and Chymase Serine Proteases in Inflammation and Wound Healing Jeffrey Douaiher*, Julien Succar†, Luca Lancerotto*, Michael F. Gurish‡, Dennis P. Orgill*, Matthew J. Hamilton§, Steven A. Krilis¶, and Richard L. Stevens‡,1 *Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA †Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA ‡Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA §Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ¶Department of Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Sexual Health, The St. George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract Mast cells (MCs) are active participants in blood coagulation and innate and acquired immunity. This review focuses on the development of mouse and human MCs, as well as the involvement of their granule serine proteases in inflammation and the connective tissue remodeling that occurs during the different phases of the healing process of wounded skin and other organs. The accumulated data suggest that MCs, their tryptases, and their chymases play important roles in tissue repair. While MCs initially promote healing, they can be detrimental if they are chronically stimulated or if too many MCs become activated at the same time. The possibility that MCs and their granule serine proteases contribute to the formation of keloid and hypertrophic scars makes them potential targets for therapeutic intervention in the repair of damaged skin. 1. INTRODUCTION Although mast cells (MCs) were discovered more than a century ago by Nobel Laureate Paul Ehrlich (Ehrlich, 1878), the importance of these immune cells in homeostasis and pathogen defense was appreciated only recently. MCs are not abundant in any tissue (Metcalfe, Baram, & Mekori, 1997), and they complete their development only after their poorly granulated progenitors home to tissues (Fig. 6.1). Thus, the inability to obtain sufficient numbers of in vivo-differentiated mature MCs for study greatly hindered our © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1Corresponding author: [email protected]. Douaiher et al. Page 2 understanding of the importance of these cells and why they had been conserved for more than 500 million years of evolution. A contributing factor that prevented the identification of NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptMC-restricted NIH-PA Author Manuscript genes and transcripts was the observation that mature, in vivo-differentiated MCs contained very little mRNA relative to the contaminating cells in varied tissue preparations. The discovery in the 1980s that the T-cell-derived factor interleukin (IL)-3 selectively promoted the viability, proliferation, and differentiation of a pluripotent population of mouse MCs from their hematopoietic progenitors that were free of contaminating cells finally facilitated the generation of large numbers of MCs for study (Razin, Cordon-Cardo, & Good, 1981; Razin, Ihle, et al., 1984; Schrader, Lewis, Clark-Lewis, & Culvenor, 1981). These in vitro-generated mouse bone marrow-derived MCs (mBMMCs) were less mature than those in the jejunum, skin, and other connective tissues. Nevertheless, the ability to generate nontransformed MCs in vitro from wild-type (WT) and transgenic mice on different genetic backgrounds allowed detailed studies on the developmental control and functions of these cells at the molecular level. The resulting data led to a better understanding of the importance of mouse MCs and their human equivalents in acquired and innate immunity, inflammation, and blood coagulation. The observation that IL-3-developed mBMMCs contained more mRNA on a per cell basis than mature in vivo-differentiated MCs enabled the identification and cloning of many of the MC’s mediators (e.g., mouse MC protease (mMCP)-5 (McNeil, Austen, Somerville, Gurish, & Stevens, 1991)), receptors (e.g., gp49B1/Lilrb4; Katz et al., 1996), and intracellular signaling proteins (e.g., RasGRP4; Yang et al., 2002). IL-3-developed mBMMCs have been used in nearly 1000 peer-reviewed publications. Since it was subsequently found that similar populations of MCs could be generated from fetal liver (Razin, Stevens, et al., 1984) and even embryonic stem cells (Tsai, Tam, Wedemeyer, & Galli, 2002), IL-3-dependent mouse MCs were particularly valuable for evaluating at the molecular level the functions of ubiquitously expressed proteins like Rac2 (Gu et al., 2002) and other intracellular signaling proteins that are critical for embryonic development. Thus, the in vitro method developed by Razin, Ihle, et al. (1984) for generating IL-3-dependent mouse MCs was a major technological advance. The identification of “reaginic” immunoglobulin by the Ishizakas in the 1960s (Ishizaka, Ishizaka, & Hornbrook, 1966) led to the discovery that the IgE-dependent activation of MCs can result in life-threatening systemic anaphylaxis. The generation of mBMMCs and numerous variants (McGivney, Crews, Hirata, Axelrod, & Siraganian, 1981) of the transformed RBL-1 rat MC line (Eccleston, Leonard, Lowe, & Welford, 1973) allowed investigators to deduce the mechanisms at the molecular level by which these cells participate in IgE-dependent reactions. More recent studies revealed that MCs are involved in many non-IgE-dependent processes. In that regard, some populations of mouse and human MCs can be induced to degranulate by thrombin via protease-activated receptor-1 (Par-1) (Razin & Marx, 1984; Vliagoftis, 2002), by IgG complexes via FcγRIIa or FcγRIIIa (Malbec & Daeron, 2007), by ATP via P2X, P2Y, and adenosine receptors (Forsythe & Ennis, 1999; Kurashima et al., 2012; Sudo et al., 1996), and by complement-derived anaphylatoxins via the C3a and C5a receptors (el Lati, Dahinden, & Church, 1994; Erdei & Pecht, 1996) (Fig. 6.2). MCs express numerous Toll-like receptors (TLRs). While some Adv Immunol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 July 29. Douaiher et al. Page 3 populations of mouse and human MCs that have been examined so far do not degranulate when exposed to the TLR ligand lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the treated cells release NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscriptnumerous NIH-PA Author Manuscript proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines (Matsushima, Yamada, Matsue, & Shimada, 2004; McCurdy, Olynych, Maher, & Marshall, 2003). Whether or not MCs are active participants in the inflammation, proliferation, and/or remodeling stages of wound healing remains an area of investigation. In this review, we present recent literature that details the diverse functions of MCs and their protease mediators that help orchestrate this complex process. 2. DEVELOPMENT OF MCs MCs originate from the CD34+ pluripotent stem cells in the bone marrow and fetal liver (Arinobu et al., 2005; Kirshenbaum, Kessler, Goff, & Metcalfe, 1991; Kitamura, Shimada, & Go, 1979; Kitamura, Shimada, Hatanaka, & Miyano, 1977) (Fig. 6.1A). After exiting those compartments, the committed progenitors home to virtually every organ in the body (Fig. 6.1B). The number of MC-committed progenitors in the mouse is highest in the gut mucosa (Crapper & Schrader, 1983), presumably so that the mouse can quickly expand the number of MCs in the jejunum to combat helminth and bacterial infections. In support of this conclusion, the ability to expel the nematode Trichinella spiralis from the jejunum is delayed in infected mice lacking the chymase mMCP-1 (Knight, Wright, Lawrence, Paterson, & Miller, 2000). In vivo-differentiated MCs are heterogeneous, and several polarized subsets have been identified in rodents and humans. These subsets were initially distinguished in rats histochemically (Enerback, 1966), ultrastructurally (Enerback & Lundin, 1974; Friend et al., 1996), and biochemically, based on their expression of different protease–serglycin proteoglycan (SGPG) complexes in their granules (Le Trong, Parmelee, Walsh, Neurath, & Woodbury, 1987; Stevens et al., 1986; Woodbury et al., 1978; Yurt, Leid, & Austen, 1977), as well as by their ability to generate varied
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